Indycar Racing News

Michael Shank Racing will undertake its most ambitious season to date with the addition of a six-race Verizon IndyCar Series effort for Jack Harvey run in concert with Schmidt Peterson Motorsports. The Honda-powered MSR/Harvey/SPM program is set to happen in parallel with MSR's two-car IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship program where the Ohio-based team has retained its Acura NSX GT3s. In th...

Alexander Rossi and Conor Daly have finally spilled the beans, confirming they were recent participants on Season 30 of CBS' "The Amazing Race." The 30th race around the world features an all-around "competitive class" that includes former NBA All-Stars Cedric Ceballos and Shawn Marion, X-Games champions Kristi Leskinen and Jen Hudak, competitive eaters Joey Chestnut and Tim Janus and nationally ...

Marco Andretti will trade places with Alexander Rossi next season. Andretti will drive the No. 98 Andretti-Herta Autosport Honda going forward, which will continue his direct working relationship with team co-owner Bryan Herta, and Rossi will move to the third-generation driver's No. 27 Andretti Autosport Honda. "I'm very much looking forward to being in the Andretti-Herta entry," said Marco Andr...

IndyCar veteran Lyn St. James joins Marshall Pruett as guest host of the #WeekinIndyCar podcast to discuss the dimming hopes for Danica Patrick at Chip Ganassi Racing next May at Indy, the unfortunate loss of Jim Nabors, IndyCar's move to deregulate more spec parts on the Dallara DW12, the loss of IndyCar digital content guru Brian Simpson, Andretti Autosport's charity garage sale and Phoenix Int...

Plans have been scrapped for a 2018 Indy 500 partnership between Schmidt Peterson Motorsports and former Formula 1 entrant Didier Calmels to run France's Tristan Gommendy in the No. 77 Honda ( driven by Jay Howard in the 2017 race, above ). Gommendy, who currently races LMP2 prototypes in the FIA World Endurance Championship, drove for KV Racing in the Champ Car series in 2007. The plan had calle...

Two things were made clear during NASCAR's season finale at Homestead: Danica Patrick wants to close her career next May at the Indy 500, and Chip Ganassi Racing looked like the most obvious candidate to facilitate that dream. Speaking with RACER on Wednesday, Ganassi wasn't ready to say it won't happen for her in his Honda-powered team, but don't be surprised if Patrick continues the search for ...

On Tuesday, the Long Beach City Council unanimously approved a new agreement with the Grand Prix Association of Long Beach that will allow the company to continue running the annual Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach through 2023, GPALB officials announced today. The new agreement, which will take effect starting with the April 13-15, 2018 Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach, sustains a relationship bet...

The Verizon IndyCar Series is removing more items from its list of spec Dallara DW12 parts. Leading into the 2017 season, IndyCar competition president Jay Frye and his team launched an initiative to convert some spec DW12 components to free and open for teams to produce on their own or through preferred vendors, and with testing set to begin in just over a month, more items have been identified....

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Enjoy previous installments of Robin Miller's video series celebrating the tough guys of Indy at The RACER Channel on YouTube. Big, brash and bold â that was Jud Larson, whose prowess on dirt tracks made him a legend during his decade in USAC. In 1956, Larson got a call from John Zink and was offered Indy winner Pat Flaherty's ride at the Hoosier Hundred after Flaherty had been badly injured at S...

More than 20,000 Japanese fans, along with luminaries from across Honda's motorsport platforms including Jenson Button, Marc Marquez and Dani Pedrosa, were on hand to celebrate Takuma Sato's Indy 500 victory in May and the Borg-Warner Trophy's first overseas visit at the Honda Racing THANKS DAY event at Motegi on Sunday. The trophy was joined by Sato's Indy-winning car on display in a garage, wit...

Take a tour of the 1981 CART IndyCar Series season with the convention-defying All American Racers Eagle â the stock block V8-powered "Pepsi Challenger" with which driver Mike Mosley starts in the middle of the front row at the Indy 500. Then move to the Michigan 500 where Mosley stars and Bruce Jenner interviews team owner Dan Gurney, and look for the sweeping yellow tail of Mosley's No. 48 as a...

The Verizon IndyCar Series no longer races at Twin Ring Motegi, but Japan's first Indianapolis 500 winner, Takuma Sato, gave his home fans a chance to see his Dallara-Honda in action during Honda Thanks Day at the Japanese oval race complex, where the manufacturer salutes its fans for supporting its racing programs. Note the huge crowd that turned out to watch! Takuma Sato Demo Laps at Twin Ring ...

Reigning Verizon IndyCar Series champion Josef Newgarden will compete for the first time in the Race Of Champions, joining fellow IndyCar drivers Ryan Hunter-Reay, Helio Castroneves and Juan Pablo Montoya in the prestigious all-star event set for Feb. 2-3 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Montoya, the two-time Indianapolis 500 winner, is the defending 'Champion of Champions,' having earned the title as an...

Mexico's Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez will not play host to the Verizon IndyCar Series in 2018. It solidifies the upcoming schedule at 17 rounds, and leaves the early August date earmarked for Mexico open for teams to recharge before sprinting through four races in five weeks. "IndyCar is invested in the process of putting together the right deal with a partner we are certain can deliver this rac...